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NYC shootings on pace to hit a 14-year high, NYPD Commissioner says
By Craig McCarthyDecember 8, 2020 | 10:01am | Updated
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The surging gun violence in New York City is on pace to hit a 14-year high, the city’s top cop said.
“I wish I had better news on gun violence specifically… we’re looking to close out the year on a 14-year high,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NY1 Tuesday morning.
“This has been a year like no other.”
The city has seen 1,433 shootings incidents and 1,756 gun violence victims as of Monday — nearly double last year’s numbers over the same time, according to NYPD data.
However, Shea touted the department’s uptick in gun arrests over the last three months, which were up by 25 percent year-to-date — while he continued to pin the blame on criminal justice reform, without providing evidence.
“We have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons… but when you look, three days later, four days later those individuals are back on the street committing more gun violence,” Shea said.
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The city’s top cop accepted some blame for the NYPD’s role in the surging gun violence, saying “I don’t think you ever do enough.”
“You know, no one is held accountable. It’s going to take all of us sitting down having those hard conversations,” he added, pivoting back to bail reform.
Earlier this year, Shea blamed the state’s criminal justice reform for the spike in shootings, but the department’s own data at the time did not back up that claim.
Over the summer, the de Blasio administration pointed the finger for the surge in gun violence at the courts slowing down due to the pandemic — despite no data to back up that claim.
But since the courts fully reopened in August, shootings in Gotham have shown no sign of slowing.
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